Technical Writer

Job description

TECHNICAL WRITER You'll own how developers learn to use Firecrawl. Great docs are one of the biggest reasons developers pick a tool and stick with it, and for a product that lives or dies by developer experience, this role matters more than most companies realize. You'll write the documentation, guides, tutorials, and references that turn "what does this do?" into "I shipped it in ten minutes." You'll work across engineering and growth, dogfood the product constantly, and treat clarity as a feature. You'll report to our Growth Marketing Lead and own real documentation surface from day one. Salary Range: $150,000–$215,000/year (Range shown is for U.S.-based employees in San Francisco, CA. Compensation outside the U.S. is adjusted fairly based on your country's cost of living.) Equity Range: Competitive equity — details shared during the process. Location: San Francisco, CA (Hybrid, on-site required) Job Type: Full-Time Experience: 3+ years writing technical documentation for developer-facing or API products Visa: Must be legally authorized to work in the United States. We're not able to sponsor visas right now, though that may change down the line. ABOUT FIRECRAWL Firecrawl is the easiest way to turn the web into data AI agents can use. One API call converts any URL into clean, LLM-ready markdown or structured data - the boring-hard problem everyone building with LLMs eventually hits, solved. We hit 8 figures in ARR in year one and more than doubled it in year two. We have 170+ GitHub stars, and developers, agents, and category-defining AI companies build on us every day. Growth like this is rare, and we're just getting started. We're a small team punching far above our weight. Everyone here owns a real piece of the product and company, end to end, and runs it themselves - no hiding behind process or headcount. This is a place for people who want to work at the frontier: an AI company building the infrastructure other AI companies run on, not one bolting AI onto an existing product. We move fast, go deep, and are building the tools superintelligence will rely on to gather data from the web. WHAT YOU'LL DO - Write and own the documentation, guides, tutorials, and API references developers rely on - Turn complex, technical functionality into content that gets someone to their first success fast - Dogfood the product constantly, if the docs are confusing, you felt it first - Work directly with engineering to document new features accurately and quickly - Treat docs as a product: measure where developers get stuck and fix it WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR - You've written technical documentation for a developer-facing or API product, and you can show it - You write with genuine clarity, you can make something complex feel obvious - You're technical enough to read code, use an API, and understand what you're documenting - You care about the developer's experience and sweat the details that make docs actually useful - You move fast and close the loop - you'd rather ship, measure, and iterate than perfect on paper WHAT WE'RE NOT LOOKING FOR - A writer who can't or won't get technical enough to understand the product - Someone who writes for the sake of volume rather than developer success - Someone who needs a fully-specced brief to start A NOTE ON PACE We operate at an absurd level of urgency because the window for what we're building won't stay open forever. If that excites you, keep reading. If it doesn't, no hard feelings — but this role probably isn't for you. BENEFITS & PERKS AVAILABLE TO ALL EMPLOYEES - Salary that makes sense — $150,000–$215,000/year, based on impact, not tenure - Own a piece — Gain competitive equity in what you're helping build - Generous PTO — 15 days mandatory, anything after 24 days, just ask (holidays excluded); take the time you need to recharge - Parental leave — 12 weeks fully paid, for all parents - Wellness stipend — $100/month for the gym, therapy, massages, or whatever keeps you human - Learning & Development — Expense up to $1,000/year toward anything that helps you grow professionally - Team offsites — A change of scenery, minus the trust falls - Sabbatical — 3 paid months off after 4 years, do something fun and new AVAILABLE TO US-BASED FULL-TIME EMPLOYEES - Full coverage, no red tape — Medical, dental, and vision (100% for employees, 50% for spouse/kids) — no weird loopholes, just care that works - Life & Disability insurance — Employer-paid short-term disability, long-term disability, and life insurance — coverage for life's curveballs - Supplemental options — Optional accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity, and voluntary life insurance for extra peace of mind - Doctegrity telehealth — Talk to a doctor from your couch - 401(k) plan — Retirement might be a ways off, but future-you will thank you - Pre-tax benefits — Access to FSAs and commuter benefits (US-only) to help your wallet out a bit - Pet insurance — Because fur babies are family too AVAILABLE TO SF-BASED EMPLOYEES - SF HQ perks — Snacks, drinks, team lunches, intense ping pong, and peak startup energy - E-Bike transportation — A loaner electric bike to get you around the city, on us INTERVIEW PROCESS Application Review — Send us your work and a quick note on why this excites you. Show us documentation you've written, ideally for a developer or API product. We care about the writing, not where you went to school. Intro Chat (~25 min) — A quick conversation to get to know each other before we go deep. We'll talk about what you've been working on, what drew you to Firecrawl, and what you're looking for in your next role. Time for your questions too. Technical Chat (~45 min) — We'll look at a real piece of our product and talk through how you'd document it, or have you show us how you'd take something complex and make it clear. Come ready to think out loud; we care how you reason about clarity, not whether you memorized a style guide. Founder Chat (~25 min) — Culture, pace, ownership, and how you like to work. Time for your questions too. Paid Work Trial (1-2 weeks) — Write a real piece of Firecrawl documentation with the team — paid at a contractor rate. It's the truest signal for both sides: you see what building at Firecrawl actually feels like, and we see how you work. Remote-friendly, and we'll flex around your current commitments. Decision — We move fast after the trial. If you want to write the docs that make Firecrawl click for every developer who tries it, you should join us. 👉 Apply now.